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What Is Drug Policy For?.
De Gruyter Bristol University Press/Policy Press Complete eBook-Package 2025 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Buxton, Julia.
- Series:
- What Is It For? Series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Pharmaceutical policy.
- Drug control.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (209 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Bristol : Bristol University Press, 2025.
- Summary:
- There is general agreement about the need to criminalise the production, sale and possession of certain drugs, yet the costly international apparatus around this is failing.But why do we criminalise some substances and not others?Is the purpose misguided, or the methods, or both?.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Series Page
- About the Author
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of Tables and Boxes
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1. Drug Criminalization: Is it Working?
- 2. Building an International Drug Prohibition
- 3. The Persistence of the Drug User
- 4. The Problem of Endless Supply
- 5. What Chance of Drug Policy Reform?
- Further Reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-5292-4146-4
- OCLC:
- 1535963836
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